The problem with writing anything about myself is that if I decide to make a reference to a currently airing anime, it'll be out-of-date in six months when anyone bothers to read this. So I'll just write something timeless in here like "I wish I were a bird". Sorrow-kun
The problem with writing anything about myself is that if I decide to make a reference to a currently airing anime, it'll be out-of-date in six months when anyone bothers to read this. So I'll just write something timeless in here like "I wish I were a bird". 2nd Anime Oscars?
More mock awards on the anime blogosphere (as if there haven’t been enough), this one being a sequel of the one I did last year. Just like the last effort, this set of awards will be structured to (somewhat) resemble the real Academy Awards, cheekily timed to coincide with yesterday’s ceremony. Again, these [...]
Random Comedy is Not Clever Comedy
This post is largely inspired by a Twitter debate largely between Sea Slugs! Anime Blog’s Jesus159159159 and The Cart Driver’s Scamp, over the respective merits and flaws of Excel Saga and Seto no Hanayome. For the record, I sided with Jesus159159159, but it’s quite a stretch to say either is an exceptionally funny, let [...]
Themes of Distance and Separation in Ponyo
There are two ways to look at Ponyo, Miyazaki Hayao’s latest movie, one as a film and the other a story. In my opinion, as a film it’s great, as the overwhelming majority of his films are, but as a story, it’s good-OK. It’s a very simple story, possibly the simplest from Miyazaki [...]
Facial Expressions in Anime – The Extreme, The Effective…
…And the extremely effective.
Recently I’ve taken to watching video reviews from The Angry Video Game Nerd. I find his work hilarious… he has that college internet style of humour that online satirists like Maddox from The Best Page In The Universe have, except the “satire” itself has been replaced with extreme crassness delivered with [...]
Winter 2010: First Thoughts
I had the full intention of signing up for Crunchyroll membership this season, but baulked when I realized they only had two shows I was interested in. However, those two shows are arguably the best of the season so far, and with the US dollar where it is, there’s probably no better time for [...]
